God, the console wars were such an insane time. These companies kept pulling these generation defining technologies out of a hat and selling them for insane losses. A time when a toy was more powerful than the computer on your desk at work. When the PS3 came out with the CELL and completely dominated Folding@Home, it was like witnessing alien technology

>However, the success of the Dreamcast meant that the PC variant, sold as Neon 250, appeared a year late to the market, in late 1999. The Neon 250 was nevertheless competitive with the RIVA TNT2 and Voodoo3.[12] The Neon 250 features inferior hardware specifications compared to the PowerVR2 part used in Dreamcast, such as a halved tile size, among others.

@xianc78 @alex @olmitch by "pre standard", I mean pre T&L pre-OpenGL pre-DirectX pre-Nvidia stuff, PowerVR exposed their own APIs and expected PC devs to use them, just like every other graphics card vendor at the time, GameCube by contrast was basically a prototype for the *very* popular and standard R300 cards ATI put out not long after the GameCube came out